Ignorant people who have never once taken a religious class think that all of the Books of the Old Testament are real pieces of history. Most of the books are just analogies that we are supposed to learn lessons from. If you don't know or realize that then that just shows you have no idea what you are talking about in the first place.

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I honestly don't see how you can pick and choose which is right to follow since it is all supposed to be written by people under the influence of God anyway. I mean God is all-knowing, he saw the future and should have been able to right rules which outlast time right?

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He did.

So if I write a paper saying that dinossaurs came back to Earth on a spaceship, took it over, and then an atomic bomb launched by the vietnamits killed them and someone finds this paper 2000 years from now they should take it as a fact?

As I said, Jesus might have existed.

Jesus is a lie

how can you prove what the bible says even has any merit? it was written by men and has been edited by men many times over 2000 years.

My main problem is because the Bible in itself is a huge contradiction.

I don't feel like getting into this thread, but suffice it to say you're a dumbass

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Your paper would be rejected and wouldnt be printed. The Bible has billions of copies that has been proven by historians as historical documentation.

Once upon a time (75 million years ago to be more precise) there was an alien galactic ruler named Xenu. Xenu was in charge of all the planets in this part of the galaxy including our own planet Earth, except in those days it was called Teegeeack.
Now Xenu had a problem. All of the 76 planets he controlled were overpopulated. Each planet had on average 178 billion people. He wanted to get rid of all the overpopulation so he had a plan.
Xenu took over complete control with the help of renegades to defeat the good people and the Loyal Officers. Then with the help of psychiatrists he called in billions of people for income tax inspections where they were instead given injections of alcohol and glycol mixed to paralyse them. Then they were put into space planes that looked exactly like DC8s (except they had rocket motors instead of propellers).

These DC8 space planes then flew to planet Earth where the paralysed people were stacked around the bases of volcanoes in their hundreds of billions. When they had finished stacking them around then H-bombs were lowered into the volcanoes. Xenu then detonated all the H-bombs at the same time and everyone was killed.
The story doesn't end there though. Since everyone has a soul (called a "thetan" in this story) then you have to trick souls into not coming back again. So while the hundreds of billions of souls were being blown around by the nuclear winds he had special electronic traps that caught all the souls in electronic beams (the electronic beams were sticky like fly-paper).
After he had captured all these souls he had them packed into boxes and taken to a few huge cinemas. There all the souls had to spend days watching special 3D motion pictures that told them what life should be like and many confusing things. In this film they were shown false pictures and told they were God, The Devil and Christ. In the story this process is called "implanting".
When the films ended and the souls left the cinema these souls started to stick together because since they had all seen the same film they thought they were the same people. They clustered in groups of a few thousand. Now because there were only a few living bodies left they stayed as clusters and inhabited these bodies.
As for Xenu, the Loyal Officers finally overthrew him and they locked him away in a mountain on one of the planets. He is kept in by a force-field powered by an eternal battery and Xenu is still alive today.

Fear of what, these are converted Jews.

If Jesus was not the messiah they were going to go to hell, so if they knew he wasn't, why did they die for it?

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Although I agree with your points and I *AM* Catholic, I'm going to have to say that this isn't necessarily true. Ever heard of L Ron Hubbard? Yeah, the guy who started the Church of $cientology. His religion managed to spread by lies and theft, and at the last moment, revealing the truth behind the religion. The truth: Xenu.

Fear makes them believe it.

This is coming from the keyboard of a Catholic person, too. I'm just trying not to be biased.

Actually, I think Catholicism blows. I want to convert but I can't find any better religion. Maybe I should just make up my own.

Actually, I think Catholicism blows. I want to convert but I can't find any better religion. Maybe I should just make up my own.

well thats why I like Sikhism. It's more about making life better on Earth, rather than any concern of the afterlife. There's no set of history or rules to obey or anything. It's just pretty much philosophy more than anything. And they just believe in God, nothing more. Most of us believe in reincarnation, but I myself don't care

and liking a religion doesn't make it anymore or less true

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see thats the thing about christians. all they care about is what is "right" or what is "wrong". whats "correct" and "incorrect". Whats going to give them heaven or give them hell. theyre all concerned about what theyre going to get out of it. thats why Christianity is so appealing. it just makes you think that as long as youre not going to burn in hell for eternity after you die, nothing else matters and that others should be afraid enough of hell to agree with you.

what??? of course whats right matters, I would rather knowingly follow the right religion than the wrong one

if they were afraid of hell they could follow any religion

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What defines the "right religion" exactly? You don't know much about other religions to even understand what the point of it all is.

The evidence supports Christianity, so, Christianity is right is how I define it

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...Okay. Christianity and Islam are like the only two major religions in the world that have anything to do with hell. You don't get it, do you? Hell is not the consequence of every religion. Sikhism doesn't state that if you are not Sikh you go to Hell or something similar. Nor does Buddhism. Nor does Hinduism. Nor does Taoism. Nor does Confucianism. Most religions don't even have a consequence for not believing in it. They're just guidelines to life and a need for spiritual understanding about what's beyond. You just think they do because that's how Christianity and Islam work, but they are not the defining factors of a religion...

The evidence doesn't support Christianity, it could as easily be a religion supported by currently well known facts just used to support the Bible, you wouldn't be able to know. And when it comes to God, there's no real evidence, just faith. And my faith tells me that God would not send humans to Earth for the sole purpose of going to Hell unless they "believed" in something.

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I dont understand what you mean by "it could as easily be a religion supported by currently well known facts just used to support the Bible, you wouldn't be able to know."

"And when it comes to God, there's no real evidence,"

unless you mean the harmony of scientific laws or the extreme unlikely hood of a life supporting universe

or something

Bible has been edited so many times.